Who’s Wearing What: Matthew Williamson dressed Halle Berry for the Los Angeles Premiere of “Catwoman” earlier this week. She chose an empire waist, multi-color print dress with antique gold charm accents by Matthew Williamson. The look is from Matthew Williamson’s Fall 2004 “Wildest Dreams” collection.

UK designer Matthew Williamson’s designs have been worn by Jade Jagger, Kate Moss, Naomi Watts, Mischa Barton and Helena Christensen. He launched his own label in 1996 with business partner Joseph Velosa after working for Georgina Von Etzdorf, Marni, and Monsoon. Based in London, Williamson shows during New York fashion week and is sold in the US at Tracey Ross in Los Angeles and Bergdorf Goodman in New York.

<> <>Final Jack: OUTBACK JACK The Big Finale Tuesday, August 10 9 p.m. (ET/PT) The day of decision has finally arrived, and Jack must choose which woman is the one for him as TBS’s wild new reality series OUTBACK JACK comes to an end with an eye-opening finale Tuesday, August 10, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT). OUTBACK JACK, from Bruce Nash’s Nash Entertainment (Meet My Folks, For Love or Money, Who Wants To Marry My Dad?), puts a group of pampered city women to the test as they vie for the affections of their rugged leading man. The series, hosted by JD Roberto (Shop Til You Drop, Shark Chasers), combines fish-out-of-water comedy with romantic adventure, making for plenty of fun twists and turns.

The finale of OUTBACK JACK opens with Jack (athlete-outdoorsman Vadim Dale) and the remaining two women arriving at their last camp via hot air balloon. This ocean-front camp, however, has wind gusts that nearly destroy the women’s tent.

On day one of their stay at the beach-front camp, Jack takes the first woman on an all-day date, flying in a seaplane, then snorkeling and frolicking in the surf. The following day, the other woman gets a shot at Jack as they ride around the beach on ATVs before hitting the water in kayaks. All the while, the two women make the best play possible for Jack’s affections, but in the end, he can only choose one.

OUTBACK JACK closes with a quick recap of Jack and the women’s incredible journeys together, climaxing with his final choice of the woman who has come from the city to melt the heart of the rugged outdoorsman.

Entourage Already Renewed: HBO has renewed the new comedy series

ENTOURAGE for a second season, it was announced today by Carolyn

Strauss,

president, HBO Entertainment. A look at the life of a young star and

his

buddies in Hollywood, the eight-episode first season kicked off last

Sunday.

Production on additional episodes will begin later this year, with the

second season to launch in 2005 on HBO.

“ENTOURAGE is already shaping up as both a critical and subscriber

smash,” said Strauss. “I can’t wait to see what kind of stories

creator

Doug Ellin and his talented team will tell in the second season.”

From executive producer Mark Wahlberg, the new eight-episode comedy

series kicked off last Sunday, July 18 (10:00-10:30 pm ET), exclusively

on

HBO. Wahlberg also makes a cameo appearance in the first episode of

the

show, which draws on the experiences of industry insiders.

The show has already sparked critical praise, with TV Guide hailing

the show as “smart” and “seriously funny,” while Entertainment Weekly

calls

it “hilarious” and “packed firm with laughs.” The New York Times

raves,

“Nothing on network television is as smart, original and amusing,”

adding,

“The send-up of Hollywood mores and manners is merciless.”

Filmed at Hollywood locations, ENTOURAGE tells the story of Vince, a

sexy young movie star whose career is just taking off. To share the

fun of

the ride and keep him grounded, Vince looks to Eric, Drama and Turtle,

his

longtime pals from Queens. Together they experience the highs and lows

of

life in the fast lane of Hollywood, where the stakes are higher, and

the

money and temptations greater, than ever before.

Adrian Grenier (“The Adventures of Sebastian Cole,” “Drive Me

Crazy”) stars as Vince, who slips easily into stardom. Kevin Connolly

(“The

Notebook,” “Antwone Fisher”) plays Eric, who’s learning the rules of

Hollywood as he tries to help Vince make the right choices. Kevin

Dillon

(“The Doors,” “Platoon”) plays Vince’s half-brother Drama, whose own

acting

aspirations have been eclipsed by Vince’s success. Jerry Ferrara

(“NYPD

Blue,” “Cross Bronx”) plays Turtle, the least experienced of the group,

who’s always up for a good time. Jeremy Piven (“Old School,” “The

Larry

Sanders Show”) plays Ari, Vince’s aggressive, high-powered agent, who

clashes with Eric over his client’s decisions.

Along with Mark Wahlberg, cameo appearances in the first season of

ENTOURAGE include Jessica Alba, Gary Busey, Larry David, David

Faustino,

Sara Foster, Val Kilmer, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman and Luke Wilson.

ENTOURAGE is created by Doug Ellin; executive produced by Mark

Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, Doug Ellin and Larry Charles; co-executive

producer, Timothy Marx; co-producer, Rob Weiss. Credits are for season

one.

Curb Your Enthusiasm Gets 5^th Season: HBO has renewed the comedy series CURB

YOUR ENTHUSIASM, executive produced by and starring Larry David, for a

fifth

season, it was announced today by Carolyn Strauss, president, HBO

Entertainment. Production of ten new episodes of the Emmy®- and

Golden

Globe-winning series will begin in Los Angeles next January.

Completing its fourth season of ten episodes last March (with 40

episodes to date), CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM stars “Seinfeld” co-creator

David as

himself in an unsparing, cinema verité depiction of his life.

Featuring

real-life celebrities playing themselves, the episodes are improvised

by the

actors from storylines by David. CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM also stars

Cheryl

Hines as David’s wife Cheryl and Jeff Garlin as David’s manager Jeff.

The fourth season of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM inspired critical raves.

Variety said that the series “retains its place as the funniest of the

funny

on television today,” while TV Guide called it “one of the most

hysterical

satires TV has seen.” The Washington Post called the show “one of the

absolutely funniest half-hours on television,” and New York Newsday

described it as “painfully funny.”

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM received eight Emmy® nominations last week,

including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy

Series (Larry David) and three for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy

Series

(Larry Charles, Bryan Gordon, Robert B. Weide). In 2003, Robert B.

Weide

won a directing Emmy® for his work on the series.

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM is executive produced by Larry David, Jeff

Garlin and Gavin Polone; executive producers/directors, Robert B. Weide

and

Larry Charles; producer, Tim Gibbons; co-producer, Erin O’Malley.

Political Tourist: Hundreds of state fairs to visit, thousands of babies to kiss,

millions of hands to shake... What does it takes to become President

of the

United States of America?

Alexandra Pelosi’s DIARY OF A POLITICAL TOURIST, chronicling her

two-year road trip on the Democratic campaign trail—from the

candidates’

announcements, through the early primaries, to Super Tuesday and the

convention—follows presidential wannabes as they make their run for

the

White House when the exclusive HBO documentary debuts MONDAY, OCT. 11

at

8:00 p.m. (ET).

Following the 2002 HBO documentary “Journeys with George,” Pelosi’s

irreverent account of George W. Bush on the campaign trail, she set out

on

the road again with a handful of distinguished men competing to see who

could eat the most pies, raise the most money and get the most votes to

become the Democratic Party nominee. An action-packed adventure

criss-crossing America, her video diary reveals the fun, the

exhaustion, the

pain, the shame, the tears, the absurdity, the hard work and the ego

that go

into challenging the leader of the free word.

DIARY OF A POLITICAL TOURIST offers a rare bird’s-eye view of the

political process, departing from the official version to reveal the

inner

workings of democracy. Featured in the special are General Wesley

Clark,

Governor Howard Dean, Senator John Edwards, Congressman Dick Gephardt,

Senator Bob Graham, Senator John Kerry and Senator Joe Lieberman, with

cameo

appearances by President George W. Bush.

During the first year, Pelosi taped Democratic contenders as they

made their debuts on the campaign trail in Iowa and New Hampshire. She

summered in Iowa, visiting hog lots with John Kerry, peering inside

John

Edwards’ bus and refrigerator, observing pie-eating contests with Dick

Gephardt, tasting deep-fried Twinkies at the Iowa State Fair with Joe

Lieberman, and riding along in Bob Graham’s RV, singing his theme song.

In

the fall, she taped and witnessed the rise and demise of Howard Dean.

From

the Iowa Caucuses through Super Tuesday, Pelosi followed each of the

leading

contenders as America voted them off the ballot.

As a “political tourist,” Pelosi brings her unique perspective and

humorous style to the quest to find out what it takes to become the

sole

survivor in the race for the West Wing. Among the memorable campaign

moments she captures on tape are Gephardt’s “Gephardtpalooza” in Iowa;

Lieberman efforts to create “Joe-mentum” in New Hampshire; “Grillin’

with

the Grahams”; Dean’s nationwide “Sleepless Summer Tour”; and Edwards’

bus

tour on the “Real Deal Express.”

Alexandra Pelosi began her career in television covering politics in

Washington, D.C., and subsequently served as a network news producer

for

five years. For her first film, 2002’s “Journeys with George,” Pelosi

spent

18 months with the candidate and journalists on the campaign trail,

covering

the closest and most controversial presidential election in history.

She is

the daughter of Nancy Pelosi, California Democratic congresswoman and

House

minority leader.

DIARY OF A POLITICAL TOURIST is written, directed and produced by

Alexandra Pelosi; edited by Juliet Weber and Geof Bartz. For HBO:

supervising producer, Lisa Heller; executive producer, Sheila Nevins.

Cinemax Saturday Night At the Movies: Every Saturday at 10:00 p.m. (ET),

CINEMAX premieres “See It Saturday” movies, spotlighting top Hollywood

films. Among the standout “See It Saturday” films making their

national

pay-cable TV debuts on CINEMAX in the second half of 2004 are ONCE UPON

A

TIME IN MEXICO, HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS and the

unrated version of AMERICAN WEDDING.

After three crazy years of dating, Jim decides to marry his “band

camp” sweetheart in AMERICAN WEDDING (Aug. 7). Jason Biggs, Alyson

Hannigan, January Jones, Thomas Ian Nicholas and Seann William Scott

star in

this raucously funny, unrated conclusion to the “American Pie” series,

featuring extended scenes not available in theaters. In addition, this

premiere is part of an “ultimate double feature” with sister channel

HBO,

with HBO debuting “Seabiscuit” at 8:00 p.m., followed by the premiere

of

AMERICAN WEDDING on CINEMAX at 10:30 p.m.

In ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO (Sept. 18), a corrupt CIA agent

recruits a Mexican hitman and a retired FBI agent to foil a plot by a

drug

kingpin to assassinate Mexico’s president. Written and directed by

Robert

Rodriguez, this explosive sequel to “Desperado” stars Antonio Banderas,

Salma Hayek, Johnny Depp, Mickey Rourke, Eva Mendes, Danny Trejo,

Enrique

Iglesias, Marco Leonardi and Cheech Marin with Rubén Blades and Willem

Dafoe.

HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG (Oct.) stars Jennifer Connelly as a distraught

recovering alcoholic who inherits her father’s beloved house, and loses

it

through a tax mistake to a proud Iranian immigrant (Ben Kingsley) on

the

brink of financial ruin. The moody drama was nominated for three

Oscars®,

including Best Actor (Kingsley), Best Actress in a Supporting Role

(Shohreh

Aghdashloo) and Best Music, Original Score. Screenplay by Vadim

Perelman

and Shawn Lawrence Otto; directed by Vadim Perelman.

In THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS (Nov.), the future of humankind hangs by a

thread as the final battle for Zion rages, and Neo and Trinity

infiltrate

Machine City to access The Source and destroy Agent Smith once and for

all.

Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving and

Jada

Pinkett Smith star in this spectacular finale to the blockbuster sci-fi

trilogy.

In addition, CINEMAX presents all three “Matrix” films back-to-back

in a thrilling night of cutting-edge action this November; the date

will be

announced when confirmed.

Every month, CINEMAX presents “Vanguard” films from America and

abroad, going outside the Hollywood mainstream for the best in

independent

films. Included on the slate for the second half of 2004 are THIRTEEN,

LE

DIVORCE, SHATTERED GLASS, THE COOLER and GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING.

In THIRTEEN (Aug. 5), the teenage daughter of a single mother gets

mixed up with the wrong crowd in an attempt to become popular. Best

Supporting Actress Oscar® nominee Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood,

Nikki

Reed and Jeremy Sisto star in this acclaimed, harrowing story of

adolescence

and rebellion.

A young American goes to Paris to visit her pregnant sister, whose

marriage is on the rocks, and gets into some romantic entanglements of

her

own in LE DIVORCE (Aug. 11). Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Jean-Marc Barr,

Leslie Caron, Stockard Channing and Glenn Close star in the romantic

comedy.

Based on a true story, SHATTERED GLASS (Sept. 10) tells the tale of

Stephen Glass, a onetime star reporter at The New Republic whose

meteoric

rise was abruptly halted when dozens of his articles were exposed by

rivals

as outright fabrications. Hayden Christensen, Golden Globe nominee

Peter

Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevigny, Rosario Dawson, Melanie Lynskey and Hank

Azaria

star in the drama.

THE COOLER (Oct.) stars William H. Macy as a gambler in Las Vegas

whose luck is so bad, he’s employed by an old-school casino owner to

end the

good luck of any player merely by his presence. But a surprising new

love

lifts his perpetual black cloud, making him dangerously useless to his

temperamental boss. Maria Bello and Best Supporting Actor Oscar®

nominee

Alec Baldwin co-star in the quirky love story.

In GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING (Nov.), a young Dutch girl takes a job

as a maid in the home of the painter Vermeer, and the two develop a

deep

friendship which leads to the painting of the world-famous, beautifully

intimate portrait. Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson,

Judy

Parfitt, Cillian Murphy and Essie Davis star in the lush drama.

© 2003 Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved. Home Box Office®, HBO® and Cinemax® are service marks of Home Box Office, Inc.

Academy Award® and Oscar® are registered trademarks and service

marks of

the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Family Bonds: “My name is Tom Evangelista. I work in New York with my wife,

daughter, nephew and in-laws. Our policy is pretty simple: If you get

arrested, we’ll bail you out. Things only get complicated if you run.

Then, we’re coming after you. And we’re the best in the business.

Some people call us bounty hunters, but to me, we’re just a family.”

from the opening of FAMILY BONDS

Meet the Evangelistas of Medford, Long Island. As tight and tough

as they come, they’re like any other hard-working American family, with

one

major difference - the Evangelistas are bail bondsmen and bounty

hunters.

Debuting SUNDAY, SEPT. 19 (10:00-10:30 p.m. ET), exclusively on HBO,

the new 10-part real-life series FAMILY BONDS reveals the day-to-day

dramas

of these outrageous people, on the job and off, as they confront the

unpredictable dangers of bounty hunting and the challenges of family

life

with resourcefulness, warmth and humor. Debuting immediately following

new

episodes of “The Wire,” each half-hour episode is directed by Steven

Cantor,

whose credits include the CINEMAX Reel Life documentary “Devil’s

Playground”

and the Oscar® nominee “Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann.”

There’s Tom, age 46, the head of the family, a chain-smoking,

tough-talking motorcycle buff with a reluctant heart of gold. He’s

been a

licensed bail bondsman for seven years. His company All City Bail

Bonds -

which posts bail money for criminal suspects who are unable to pay it

themselves - has offices in Queens, Manhattan and Long Island. His

voluptuous wife Flo has been married to Tom for 23 years. A fiercely

devoted mother with a no-nonsense style, she balances her time between

helping manage Tom’s offices and running the Evangelista household.

Chris Evangelista is Tom’s fun-loving but volatile nephew. Also a

licensed bail bondsman, he has worked for Tom for six years; since his

divorce, Chris has lived with the Evangelista family, camping out on

the

couch. Tom and Flo’s son Sal (17) is eager to leave his job at the

pizza

parlor and follow his dad into the business. Dana Giassakis (20) is

Tom and

Flo’s level-headed daughter, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband

Nick;

she has finished junior college and plans to attend New York University

in

the fall to study psychology. Frankie (7) is Tom and Flo’s younger

son, who

observes the chaotic household with wide-eyed curiosity.

Dawn Carfora, Flo’s brash, body-conscious sister, has been married

to Jimmy Carfora for 20 years, and runs the office for Jimmy at All

County

Bail Bonds, a satellite office of Tom’s All City Bail Bonds, in

Hempstead,

New York. Kim Persinger, Flo’s oldest sister, has been the

hard-working

office manager at All City Bail Bonds since Tom founded the company.

FAMILY BONDS follows the Evangelistas on the job, as they track down

fugitives, and off the job, where they play as hard as they work.

Among their adventures in the line of duty:

The All City Bail Bonds team tracks Romanian scam artists in the

Ridgewood

section of Queens.

In Manhattan’s Riverside Park, Tom’s crew pursues a murder suspect, but the hunt has an unexpected outcome.

Apprehending a battery suspect in Brooklyn, Tom discovers significant quantities of methamphetamine.

In East New York, a fugitive escapes the dragnet, but Tom figures out another way to get his man.

Tom and his crew retrieve a fugitive from Pennsylvania in the dead of night.

Tom teaches Sal - now a recovery agent in training - the basics of taking down a suspect, using Chris to demonstrate.

Off-duty, the Evangelistas star in other kinds of family dramas:

An anxious Frankie receives bike lessons from Tom, who grows too

impatient

with his son to finish the job. Flo later tries a gentler approach to

this

rite of passage, with different results.

In the Evangelistas’ back yard, Sal marks his 18^th birthday with a raucous bash that produces a few frayed nerves and bruised feelings.

At the Classy Lady nail salon, Flo and her sisters meet regularly to discuss intimate details of their sex lives, among other personal matters.

Tom tries acupuncture in an attempt to quit smoking.

Dana graduates from junior college at Kingsborough Community College with her proud family looking on, and looks ahead to attending NYU - the first in her family to be admitted to such a prestigious institution. But the result of her pregnancy test throws Dana’s college plans into doubt.

At John F. Kennedy High School’s career day, Tom makes a rare appearance in a suit, explaining his job to rapt teenagers looking for something other than the usual career options.

After a hard night of chasing bad guys, Chris shows his tender side when he visits his ex-wife and picks up his three young daughters for a carefree afternoon at the beach.

Stung by taunts about his weight from Tom and a suspect who outruns him, Chris begins a program to slim down.

Steven Cantor’s credits include the CINEMAX Reel Life documentary “Devil’s Playground” (producer), the Oscar®-nominated short film “Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann” (producer and director), “Bounce:

Behind the Velvet Rope” (producer and director), “Willie Nelson: Still

Is

Still Moving” (producer and director) and “Crossover” (producer and

director).

FAMILY BONDS is produced for HBO by Stick Figure Productions in

association with Cactus Three; director, Steven Cantor; executive

producers,

Steven Cantor and Daniel Laikind; supervising editor and co-producer,

Pax

Wassermann; producer, Matthew Galkin; co-executive producers, Julie

Goldman,

Caroline Stevens and Krysanne Katsoolis; original music, Money Mark.

Academy Award® and Oscar® are registered trademarks and service

marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

HBO Documentaries: From an unfiltered peek behind the scenes on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, to new revelations about a notorious serial killer, to thought-provoking studies of the perils of nuclear power, HBO has set a provocative and timely lineup of documentary specials and America Undercover presentations for the second half of 2004.

Among the leading documentary filmmakers whose work will be spotlighted

are

Nick Broomfield, Bill Couturié, Maryann De Leo, Rory Kennedy, Marc

Levin and

Alexandra Pelosi.

HBO documentary specials include:

Lindsay Crystal’s MY UNCLE BERNS (debuting Aug. 5) chronicles her

grand uncle Bernhardt Crystal’s life in a poignant documentary that

brings

together three generations of the Crystal family. When she set out to

chronicle her 88-year-old great-uncle’s remarkable journey through the

20^th

century, she already knew he was an accomplished artist, gallery owner

and

storyteller, thanks to the stories told by her father, comedian and

actor

Billy Crystal. But she was not prepared for the profound impact his

reminiscences would have on her. Produced and directed by Lindsay

Crystal;

executive produced by Billy Crystal and Janice Crystal.

DEATH IN GAZA (Aug. 12) is a powerful film that takes a shocking

first-hand look at the culture of hate permeating the Middle East.

Award-winning filmmaker James Miller, accompanied by reporter Saira

Shah,

captured the lives of three Palestinian children, indoctrinated in the

creed

of Jihad and growing up in the bullet-riddled streets of Gaza. But on

May

2, 2003, in the midst of filming, Miller was shot to death, falling

victim

to the conflict he covered. Produced, directed and filmed by James

Miller;

produced, written and reported by Saira Shah.

INDIAN POINT: IMAGINING THE UNIMAGINABLE (Sept. 9) spotlights the

controversial nuclear power plant, located on the Hudson River 35 miles

north of midtown Manhattan. Amidst a growing and heated debate about

its

future, the owners maintain Indian Point to be “safe, secure and

vital,”

while others believe it’s particularly vulnerable to terrorist attacks.

The

documentary explores the plant’s role in providing power to the region

and

investigates why it has become a focal point for the debate over safe

and

efficient energy resources in the wake of 9/11. Produced and directed

by

Rory Kennedy (HBO’s “A Boy’s Life” and “American Hollow”); produced by

Liz

Garbus.

CHERNOBYL HEART (Sept. 9), this year’s Academy Award® winner for

Best Documentary Short, travels deep into the heart of the worst

nuclear

disaster in history, chronicling its continuing effects today.

Following

Adi Roche, founder of Ireland’s Chernobyl Children’s Project, the film

reveals the invisible trail radiation leaves behind. (Debuts

immediately

following INDIAN POINT: IMAGINING THE UNIMAGINABLE.) Produced and

directed

by Maryann DeLeo.

Alexandra Pelosi’s DIARY OF A POLITICAL TOURIST (Oct. 11) follows

her two-year road trip on the campaign trail with the Democratic

presidential wannabes. This irreverent film documents the fun,

exhaustion,

pain, shame, tears, absurdity, hard work and ego that go into

challenging

the leader of the free world. Subjects include Gen. Wesley Clark, Gov.

Howard Dean, Sen. John Edwards, Rep. Dick Gephardt, Sen. Bob Graham,

Sen.

John Kerry and Sen. Joe Lieberman. Directed and produced by Alexandra

Pelosi (HBO’s “Journeys with George”).

Upcoming America Undercover presentations include:

BACK IN THE HOOD: GANG WAR 2 (Aug. 26) returns to Little Rock, Ark.

setting of the 1994 HBO documentary “Gang War: Bangin’ in Little Rock”— to update the story. The film catches up with numerous former gang members from the first film, including Leifel Jackson, once one of the most notorious of the OGCs (Original Gangster Crips), who is now trying to live straight and make a positive difference in his neighborhood. Produced by Marc Levin and Daphne Pinkerson; directed by Marc Levin.

LAST LETTERS HOME (Nov.), produced in association with the New York

Times, is an intimate, deeply moving documentary featuring the last

letters

home from American soldiers in Iraq. Families of the dead read the

letters

aloud, in their hometowns, helping to preserve their memories.

Produced and

directed by Bill Couturié (HBO’s Emmy®-winning “Dear America:

Letters

Home from Vietnam”).

In AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER (Nov.), Nick

Broomfield revisits executed murderer Aileen Wournos (subject of the

2003

dramatic feature film “Monster”) 12 years after his documentary “Aileen

Wournos: The Selling of a Serial Killer.” The new film explores

Wuornos’

childhood, which was marked by unrelenting abuse, and reveals the

continued

violence she endured as a hitchhiking prostitute, following the story

through to her execution.

Academy Award® and Oscar® are registered trademarks and service

marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Travel Channel’s Monday Nights: Beginning September 6, 2004, the Travel Channel is giving Monday nights a makeover! Each Monday, from 8-11 PM (ET/PT), viewers will have the chance to join the Travel Channel for an evening of luxurious living and great weekend getaways.
Kicking off the night at 8 PM (ET/PT), three imaginative travel planners present customized vacation packages to deserving friends, couples and families in the series premiere of VACATION CHALLENGE. The competition heats up as each planner, under a specific budget, tries to sway the lucky vacationers to choose his or her precisely planned weekend package.
Later, at 8:30 PM (ET/PT), in VACATION HOME SEARCH, potential buyers begin the exhilarating, challenging and often times, agonizing quest of finding their own piece of heaven away from home. With the help of a real estate agent, these eager families and couples strive to get the most bang for their buck in their destination of choice and make their vacation pipedreams a reality.
Then, at 9 PM (ET/PT), from a dwelling that was once a Boeing 727 to an elegant home carved out of a two-story tree stump, viewers will witness creative living taken to new heights in back-to-back, half-hour episodes of AMAZING VACATION HOMES. Owners lead camera crews in and out of unbelievable getaways, ridiculous and sublime, for an up close and personal tour of the incredible places they call paradise.
Finally, it’s on to bigger things, during the new DREAMING BIG hour at 10 PM (ET/PT), where upgrades abound in everything from pools and private islands to truck stops and McDonald’s restaurants. Viewers get a taste for the high life as cameras capture all things new and improved, be it super yacht, millionaire trailer park or hotel bathroom.
The new FANTASY LIVING MONDAY line-up premieres Monday, September 6, 2004 from 8-11 PM (ET/PT).
Travel Channel is the only television network devoted exclusively to travel entertainment. Capturing the fascination, freedom and fun of travel, Travel Channel delivers insightful stories from the world’s most popular destinations and inspiring diversions. It is available in more than 75 million homes and is a service of Discovery Networks, U.S., a unit of Discovery Communications, Inc. Visit Travel Channel on the Web at http://www.discovery.com.